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A timelapse video of a Hyacinth opening into flower!

by Radu Motisan | February 14th, 2013 | Tags: camera, hyacinth, intervalometer, timelapse | Category: Photography | Leave a comment

White and blue mold as seen under the microscope, magnified up to 1000 (one thousand) times!

by Radu Motisan | February 13th, 2013 | Tags: 1000X, bausch and lomb, blue mold, cells, magnification, microscope, onion skin cells, optic, optical, phase contrast, white mold | Category: Hardware, Optics, Photography | Leave a comment

Read a post on my new acquisition, a Bauch&Lomb compound binocular microscope, a high quality tool, put to some good use to capture a few micro photographs. It can get up to 1000X with its current optics.

by Radu Motisan | August 4th, 2012 | Tags: 1000X, bausch and lomb, cells, magnification, microscope, onion skin cells, optic, optical, phase contrast, spider, white mold | Category: Hardware, Optics, Photography, Reviews | Comments (1)

A quick CCD replacement for my Canon S2 IS camera. CCD IR filter removed to enable IR photography options.

by Radu Motisan | March 18th, 2012 | Tags: 720nm, 950nm, camera, canon, ccd, Filter, infrared, s2 is | Category: Electronics, Hardware, Optics, Photography | Comments (1)

An easy way to remove a stuck filter from a lens. All you need is a piece of flexible PVC insulated wire.

by Radu Motisan | April 9th, 2011 | Tags: dslr, Filter, lens, remove, stuck | Category: Photography | Leave a comment

A simple way to give to an image an old photo look using actions in Photoshop

by Meda | March 30th, 2011 | Tags: actions, atn, image, look, old, photo, photoshop | Category: Photography, Photoshop | Comments (1)

Create a proper selection using a pen tool in Photoshop

by Meda | March 29th, 2011 | Tags: anchor point, curvy selection, lasso tool, pen tool, photoshop, selection, shape | Category: Photoshop | Comments (2)